Talk:OCS Inventory Tools

known bugs

There are still some bugs in this RPM... Help us to fix them!

ipdiscover bug

We need to confirm that ipdiscover works when the smeserver is the forced client.

I Tried the following:

ipdiscover eth0 10

	Note:
	Usage : ipdiscover [iface name] [latency in ms]

Here's what I got on my server:

<IPDISCOVER>
<H>192.168.0.100<M>00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx</M><N>pc-00100.mydomain.com</N></H>
<H>192.168.0.253<M>00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx</M><N>pc-00253.mydomain.com</N></H>
<H>192.168.0.254<M>00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx</M><N>pc-00254.mydomain.com</N></H>
</IPDISCOVER>

Sounds like it's working for me... But IpDiscover discovers nothing when launched by SME OCS' Agent. There must be a problem here!

Windows Agent don't have this problem...

Cool34000

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www/ocs/install.php bugs

Quick howto for ocsagent.exe MySQL importation. BETA

First, you need to import the file in the database. Go to www/ocs/install.php and relaunch the install (this is harmless) with an mysql admin account (I use phpmyadmin so this is admin)

If you get a warning, refresh and you should see a successful import. ocsagent.exe is now in the database. Actually, to allow download, OCS need to authenticate... That's why this file is in the database in binary code!

Once imported, the file should be deletable... But I need to verify that. Next time the agent version changes, then an update will be needed!

So, file is imported but the install reseted password to 'ocs'

You need to apply changes:

signal-event domain-modify

=> Why do we need really an admin account? Why can't we use ocs?

If you encounter any problem with files insertion, try setting the global max_allowed_packet mysql value to at least 2M in your server config file.

How to set this value for ocs only?

=> install.php is needed, as you now know. But the file can be renamed or secured when not needed ;-)

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Here's 3 screenshot already taken that I will use for the article when all of this will be clear.

Install.php

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Default MaxUpload can be seen here & ocsagent.exe not present File:OCS-installphp-warning.png

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ocsagent.exe present - successful import

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future RPM

What will be fixed in next RPM release...

MaxUpload

Default value will raise to 100M (OpenOffice ready)

secure install.php

What is the best way to secure this file?

Move it?
Rename it?
chmod 400?

If this file is secured, we need to document that in the article.

/download

Now that we know that the activation warning can be skipped, can we delete in ocs Apache template:

<Directory /opt/inventory/ocs/download>
  Options None
-  Options +Indexes
-  Options +Includes
  AllowOverride None
  order deny,allow
  deny from all
  allow from { $localAccess }
  php_admin_value open_basedir /opt/inventory/ocs/download:/tmp
</Directory>

This will disallow files from being viewable (but still accessible for ocs?)

This would be more secure if it works! Need to test that!

dependencies

change the install method to install the perl dependencies that are available from existing repos.

Then you can reduce the number of perl rpms in your download the less you are responsible for the better

yum localinstall smeserver-inventory-tools* --enablerepo=dag --enablerepo=extras 

stephen

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Is this just a doc issue or do I need to change the Requires? DOCUMENTATION, CHANGE THE INSTALL COMMAND

All needed deps are should be in extras and mostly in dag

Here's the actual list of Requires in the .spec file (edit if needed):

 - Requires:  e-smith-base  SN - NOT NEEDED IF YOU HAVE BELOW
 - Requires:  e-smith-release >= 7              # Note: SME >8 may need a fix if it uses mod_perl >=2  (could be good to test and be ready!)
 + DON'T WE HAVE SMESERVER-RELEASE >=7 ? CHECK, rpm -q ...
Requires:  mod_perl >= 1.99_16-4
Requires:  monitor-edid >= 1.11-1            #ocs Agent
Requires:  ocsinventory-ipdiscover >= 1.01-2 #ocs Agent => will remove this one as it's already a dependency of ocsinventory-agent
Requires:  ocsinventory-agent >= 0.0.6-1     #ocs Agent
Requires:  perl-Apache-DBI >= 0.9901-2.2
Requires:  perl-Archive-Tar >= 1.23-3.99_2
Requires:  perl-Compress-Zlib >= 1.42-1
Requires:  perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum >= 0.03-1.2
Requires:  perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA >= 0.21-1.2
Requires:  perl-IO-Socket-SSL >= 1.01-1
Requires:  perl-IO-Zlib >= 1.04-2
Requires:  perl-Mail-DomainKeys >= 0.21-2
Requires:  perl-MIME-Lite >= 3.01-2.2
Requires:  perl-Net-IP >= 1.23-1
Requires:  perl-Net-Jabber >= 2.0-1.2
Requires:  perl-Net-XMPP >= 1.0-1.2
Requires:  perl-SOAP-Lite >= 0.69-1
Requires:  perl-XML-SAX >= -0.12-7
Requires:  perl-XML-Simple >= 2.14-4
Requires:  perl-XML-Stream >= 1.22-1.2
Conflicts: smeserver-ocs_inventory_ng  # old RPM version, here for safety!
Conflicts: smeserver-glpi              # old RPM version, here for safety!

=> fresh 7.1 final CD install - no updates

=> dag added to yum repos (disabled and invisible)

=> removed all perl dependencies:

A lot are missing... The RPM installed but I got an error trying to contact the server!

Cool34000

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Add the dependacies and use the new yum command with --enablerepo.....